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Show CARDIFF MINE IS TO BE ABANDONED Destruction of Property Complete, and Four Hundred Men Are Left Idle, CARDIFF. III., March 18. The fire resulting from the recent explosions in the Cardiff coal mine have burned the shaft timbers, and creeping to the surface sur-face have destroyed the engine and machine-room. The mine is flooded and will be abandoned. No attempt probably will be made to recover the remaining bodies. Fifty mules in the mine were either killed by the exrlosion or drowned by the flooding flood-ing of the mine. The loss to the Cardiff Car-diff Coal Mining company by the explosion ex-plosion and abandonment of the mine will be upward of $75,000. Four hundred miners were employed and they are preparing to leave town. The place hr.s 1200 people and the payroll pay-roll of the mine was $30,000 per month. |